SciPost Physics Lecture Notes (May 2022)

Dark atoms and composite dark matter

  • James M. Cline

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.52

Abstract

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I selectively review the theoretical properties and observational limits pertaining to dark atoms, as well as composite dark matter candidates bound by a confining gauge interaction: dark glueballs, glueballinos, mesons and baryons. Emphasis is given to cosmological, direct and indirect detection constraints.